Flying Lotus
Yasuke LP (red vinyl)

Three years in the making, Netflix’s Yasuke is a six-episode anime series created by Bronx-bred and Japan-based television animation creator, producer, and director LeSean Thomas (Cannon Busters, Children of Ether, The Boondocks) and starring actor / executive producer LaKeith Stanfield (Atlanta, Sorry To Bother You) as the voice of the title character. Yasuke tells the story of a samurai warrior of African descent in a fantastical alternate universe version of feudal Japan full of magic, mechs, and of course, swordplay. A dream project for the producer, Flying Lotus consulted on the story, working alongside renowned anime creators Studio MAPPA as an executive producer on the project. The skillset of the Grammy Award winning producer is on complete display on the album, hybridizing synth melodies, bass lines and machine generated drum patterns while exploring new sonic territory - traditional Japanese percussion instruments like the taiko and hyōshigi and west African percussion — a nod to the Afro-Japanese, feudal yet futuristic world Yasuke inhabits.

NEW / Released in 2021

Tracklist:

A1 War at the Door

A2 Black Gold

A3 Your Lord

A4 Shoreline Sus

A5 Hiding in the Shadows

A6 Crust

A7 Fighting Without Honor

A8 Pain and Blood

A9 War Lords

A10 Sachi

A11 Your Screams

A12 Using What You Got

A13 African Samurai

A14 Where's the Girl?

B1 Kurosaka Strikes!

B2 This Cursed Life

B3 RoBomb

B4 Taiko Time // Sacrifice

B5 Your Day Off

B6 Your Armour

B7 Enchanted

B8 Mind Flight

B9 Survivors

B10 Your Head // We Won

B11 The Eyes of Vengeance

B12 Between Memories